Actor Hiroshi Katsuno appeared on Tetsuko Kuroyanagi's long-running talk show "Tetsuko's Room" (TV Asahi) on May 1st with his wife, entertainer Cathy Nakajima. It was revealed that he makes his granddaughter call him "Hiroshi" and that he is jealous of Cathy for having many friends.
When the granddaughter was in kindergarten, she told her friends, "Don't call Katsuno 'Grandpa.' He'll get mad if you don't call him Hiroshi, so everyone should call him Hiroshi," and "Hiroshi is coming to pick you up." So when Katsuno went to pick her up from kindergarten, everyone called her "Hiroshi." When the kindergarten teacher said, "Grandpa is coming to pick you up," Katsuno "corrected" her, saying, "Sorry. It's Hiroshi."
Cathy also revealed that when she was a teenager, "we all got together and had fun. We loved dancing, fashion, music, everything. We hung out in a place called Honmoku in Yokohama. I met up with some of my friends from back then about 10 years ago and we became good friends, transcending time." One of those friends was Junko, the mother of actor Tadanobu Asano. "We still have a lot of fun together, even though we're all in our 70s."
Mickey Yoshino, a musician, said that they have been friends since they were 15 years old, and when she asked, "Can you write a song for us three to sing together?", he readily agreed. In reference to "You are more beautiful than a rose," which Mickey composed, she said, "I asked him to write a song about us three being more beautiful than tulips, and he burst out laughing." A video of the three singing with Mickey's piano accompaniment was shown on the program, and Cathy remarked, "They are great friends."
Katsuno watched them with a bright smile, and Cathy revealed, "I have a lot of friends, but Katsuno always says, 'I don't have many friends, so you're lucky.'"
